Who Knew It with Matt Stewart - 146 - Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall, Claire Hooper and Jude Perl

Episode Date: June 30, 2025

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Welcome to Who Knew It with Matt Stewart, the show where the guests write the wrong answers. I'm the titular Matt Stewart and our first guest is host of the I'm the Worst podcast as well as ABC's Games Night with Claire Hooper. It's Claire Hooper. Hello, everyone. It's so good to have you back. Because you've not introduced anyone yet. I said, hello, everyone. Yes. But there was no, nobody can reply because I haven't been intro'd yet.

That's true. They're all so well-trained. Our second guest this week is a multiple award-winning comedian and musician who is performing their show. Jude Pearl tries to finish a sentence at this year's Darwin Festival. It's Jude Pearl. Hi, everyone.

Oh, hello. Hello. Hi. So good to have you entering the conversation. We both like to put our names, all of us, everyone at this table puts their names in the titles of their silly things. Yeah, you gotta, you gotta put the name in there. And our third guest this week, I don't know if he does it. No, I don't think he does.

He's going to be- Somebody's got to be humble. Yes. He's going to be performing at Off Just for Laughs this year in Montreal. It's Alistair Trombley-Birtchell. Hello everybody. Yay! What does that mean, Al?

Is it JFL kind of back? Yeah, JFL is back. A company after it collapsed, a Quebec company called Comedy Ha bought it and then also got all the government grants. And then they shifted their name from Comedy Ha to the more recognizable Just For Laughs and Just Pour Rire. And then, and it's back baby. Oh, that's so good.

So what's the off Just For Laughs? They used to have it as Zoo Fest. And so it was just kind of a festival that happens at the same time. And but I think it's, you know, it's the way that they compartmentalize off the comedians that they're like, I'm not sure we want to give you full branding. So it's off. The it's the off Broadway. It's the off Broadway, which is the cool Broadway. Isn't it?

Yeah, the. I mean, it's cooler than Broadway, obviously. Yeah, absolutely. Oh, congratulations anyway. Which is the cool Broadway, isn't it? Yeah, the underground. It's cooler than Broadway, obviously. Yeah, absolutely. Oh, congratulations anyway. That's so cool. I mean, the list of names you're in amongst, they're all big, heavy hitters. So it's very cool to see. That's probably, I think it's where they put all the big dogs, you know.

Yeah, that's what I figured. You're the biggest dog of all. That's why we sent you to Canada. They sent me here here didn't they? And I mean dog in the you know the positive sense of man's best friend. So we sent you to the most polite company country in the world. Anyway that's a good riff. The way the show works is I ask a relatively obscure trivia question our contestants have to write a convincing fake answer. I then read their answers as relatively obscure trivia question. Our contestants have to write a convincing fake answer.

I then read their answers as well as the real one. I have to guess which one is correct. And hey, well, I've got you one up for us at who knew it pod on Instagram, etc. You'll be able to see Alistair and his hat, which is a really good hat. My hair is too greasy. Oh, is that what it is? Yeah, that's a great chain amongst other things. The hair being no good. All chain. Amongst other things. For hair, bean.

No good. All right, so the first question comes from Anjude. Feel free to ask any questions. It's your first time playing. If you got any questions, feel free to ask. Yeah. And Matt, if you have any questions for us, also feel free to ask any of those. Okay, great.

Actually, thanks so much for inviting me to do that. I've got one right here. Comes from listener Travis Alexander from West Virginia. And the question is, what does the word lanyap mean? What does the word lanyap mean? Could you spell it, please? Sure can. L-A-G-N-I-A-P-P-E. Hang on. L-A-G-N-I-A-P-P-E. Hang on. L-A-G-N-I-A-Double P-E.

Wow. It's beautiful. That was what I thought. Beautiful. What language is this? Uh, undetermined. Ah. I mean, you can, you could put that into your thing if you want. I reckon that's often a fun way of doing it.

Hmm. You know, something like the ancient Mesopotamian word for a goblet. That's not a good example, but that is an example. Is that one of them? Yeah. Well, I'm having a change of now. Imaginative accident.

Imaginative accident. Oh no, I said it word for word. That's the correct answer. And while they're writing their answers, I'll explain how the scoring works. So you get one point if your fake answer is guessed by the other contestant and another point if you correctly guess the answer. By the way, I'm also playing as the house and I've put into my own fake answers for

each question. I get a point for each one of these that our guests choose. So each of us can score up to three points per round, which seems fair, but the probability actually favors me, the house. And the house always wins. Oh, if you've listened to previous episodes you'll know that is not necessarily the case. Maybe one in three, something like that, but it's still pretty good I think for the house.

Most of our questions come from our great Patreon supporters. If you want to submit a question, sign up on any level via patreon.com slash dogo on pod which is linked in the show notes. So the answers are in for question number one. What does the word lanyard mean? An abandoned farmhouse that is now owned by the government. Option two, an extra or unexpected gift or benefit. For instance, something given to a customer

when they make a purchase, on top of the purchase. Option three, a small napkin, usually linen, used to polish silver as it is placed in a formal dining setting in common usage in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Option four, a Scots word for the sound a small dog makes. Option five, a flexible tube that is traditionally slid into the urethra as a medium for delivering medicinal liquids and syrups. Or finally, the craving- You had me till syrups. I mean, yes, something a little Canadian about that. Or finally the craving of large amounts of carbohydrates a portmanteau of lasagna and

appetite. Oh that's beautiful. So you got abandoned farmhouse, an unexpected gift or benefit, the linen usually linen napkin, small dog sound, tube up the up the chuff, if I'm using that word correctly, or craving of carbs, lasagna appetite. Jude, what do you think? Um, the problem is is that they're all so believable. I'm gonna go with that. That is a problem isn't it? Yeah, I'm gonna go with the napkin, the linen. Alright, locking in linen. What do you think Claire? Very good. I just want to say, if it's the portmanteau, I'm annoyed because I'm like anyone can make

up a portmanteau in the five minutes before a recording starts. I don't want it to be that one. So I'll be furious. Yeah, me too. I'll tell you what, I'm gonna call Collins and Macquarie and the boys. Oh true, if it's in the dictionary. It better be in the dictionary. That's what I'm saying.

Okay. Yes. I think that's fair. Okay. So, um, I am, I have. I like how you really stood up for your belief there. I did. Yeah. You were like, you know, you.

I want to believe in this game. I don't want to be like, well, I don't want to feel like I'm on shifting sands. I want to feel like I can, if I try, I can achieve. Yeah, it's kind of like a moral line. Yeah, there's no tricks. You're willing to fight for it. Yeah, yeah. Moral line and the shifting sands. Yeah. Well, you have those sands don't willing to fight for it. Yeah. Yeah, the moral line and the shifting sands. Yeah.

Well, you hope those sands don't shift, so the line may. Maybe the line will. It becomes a squiggle. Give the line stability or something like that, yeah. I've forgotten one of them, so I will. I don't want you to say them again. I don't want to be that guy.

Farmhouse, gift, napkin, dog sound, urethra, portmanteau. Well, I, it's fine. I'm just gonna choose the boringest, gift, napkin, dog sound, urethra, portmanteau. Well, I, it's fine. I'm just gonna choose the boringest and I'm gonna say farmhouse. Farmhouse. It's so boring. Locked in. Who'd write that one? Yeah, some boring person, maybe McQuarrie or Collins

are one of the boys. No. Oxford, you know who I'm talking about. But I'm disappointed with myself that I'm already trying to game the game. I'm like, well, but that's the boring one. So people love it. People love the listeners.

The most feedback I get is people love it when everyone's having fun, but they're trying. Yeah, I'm trying. Exactly. I think you always nail the brief. Oh, my God. I come I come here not just to play, but for the compliments. I can't wait to see what Alistair Tremblay-Birtchell chooses. Just double checking, you can't see my screen through the camera. No, I see the apple on the back of the thing. OK, great. Fantastic.

Ask me any questions about the apple. I can answer them. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, OK. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Here. Yeah. So I mean, I like this urethra one cause I mean, there are definitely our medical syrups because if you think of cough syrup, oral administration, surely. Yeah. This must be an old thing. Imagine trying to

Yeah. Yeah, this must be an old thing. Imagine trying to... Not up the chuff. Yeah. Am I... Is it the one? Is it the answer? It was like right on the back.

He just spoke about it like it's the answer. Did I? That was an accident. Al, what do you think? Can you, sorry, I know you've gone through the list numerous times, but do you know what I mean? I'm from the Claire Hooper School of hosting quiz shows. I saw an episode recently when Charlie Pickering had about three weeks to answer.

He buzzed in and everyone you can see the rest of the panel is like, I know, let me in it. And you're like, no, Charlie's, let's say Charlie of it. And I think that's fantastic. Occasionally. They shouldn't be so it shouldn't be like, no, buzzed out. Yeah. Yeah. As long as he's not taking the piss and he's buzzing and then thinking every time. Yeah.

There was a lot of that going on wasn't there on that show, but no, I really. Yeah. That's the issue with buzzing is that is this a physical challenge? Or is this a challenge of the brains? It was certainly pointed out by some people that be like be like, this game advantages people with long arms. Someone said that. And I suppose that's true. Like, you can't get comfortable.

Get me on season two. Look at those arms. I know you book it. Look at that reach. Yeah. I don't book it. I'm only teasing, but obviously it hurts. I think you'd be.

Ha ha ha ha. Little joke there. Where are we actually at? But obviously, it hurt. I think he'd be. Little joke there. What do you want to lock in? Give me... Yeah, what was the one the landlord can... No, the government can take over the land? Abandoned farmhouse. OK. An abandoned farmhouse that is owned by the government. Yeah, I don't know if I want to go that.

Give me what's the what's the last one? Last one. Craving of large amounts of carbs. Lasagna and apple pie. Let's just go with that. Let's go with that. You want to hear the third or fourth one? Just to see. That's okay. All right. Did anybody choose that last one?

No, you're the only one. Claire did the opposite of that. Claire, like to be honest, I think the word... Claire put her happiness on the fact that it is not correct. So it's actually a pretty big gamble. Remember how much I care. I care so much that it's not the answer. So here's your answers. The sound a small dog makes, that was Travis, OK, the house. Terrific.

A flexible tube that is traditionally slid into the urethra. That was Alastair Trumbo virtual. Yeah. And I tell you what, urethra and syrup are two very Alastair-y kind of. Thank you. Pull it up and strong. Do you remember his classic bit about having a huge urethra? Oh my god, having a huge urethra is one of the best jokes ever written, probably. Thanks everybody.

It really is. Thank you. It's one of the goat joke. My career went off a cliff after that. Have you translated to French for the Montreal audience? I genuinely have done it and had it recorded for a gong show here. That's great. Oh my God.

How do you say urethra in French? Uretre. Of course you do. Une uretre. Oh. Oh my God. How do you say Uri, throw it in French. Of course you do. Oh my God. That's a really sexy word. Yeah, I imagine people are laughing, but they're feeling other things. There's nothing sexier than somebody scratching the back of their throat. Yeah, I like it. Claire went for an abandoned farmhouse now under the government.

That was Jude. Great. Boring answer. Yes. Well played, sir. Thank you. Jude went for the abandoned farmhouse, known by the government. That was Jude. Great. Boring answer. Yes. Well played, sir. Thank you. Jude went for the small napkin. That was Claire. Yeah. Look at us. Creating points. Best friends.

Alice there went for the portmanteau. I'm afraid that was a house. Good. Don't worry. I thought it went for the carbs. The correct answer. No one got it. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. How about that? And it's a...

Yeah, from anything about it? What's the language of Louisiana? Why don't I just tell you the whole thing? Creole. I think it's Creole. So... Is that a thing? There's a bit of a journey.

You know when you say something and then you're like, was that? I was thinking Creole as well. Did I embarrass myself there? I was also thinking Creole, but apparently this is according to vocabulary.com. Spanish speakers in the Americas took a word from the indigenous Quechua language to make the word La Napa or La Niapa or something like that, meaning the gift. Then in New Orleans, where Spanish and French mix freely, La Niapa, how do you say, they got Frenchified into Lagnap.

And in Louisiana, it's still used to refer to a bonus from a friendly merchant when you buy something. Cute. Like a set of steak knives. Yeah, it's like a, you know, a potato cake in your fish and chips order. That's a little lanyard. Thank you for the lanyard. Yeah. Thank you for the Yanlap.

A little sachet of fertiliser with your garden centre purchase. Thank you for the Yanlap bundings. Yeah. Now we get to know, we know what to call it. It's good business to do that. Yeah. I'll offer a little lanyard. There was like a this Turkish restaurant really close to where I grew up and they would always

like if we would buy food from there, they'd always give us like extra desserts. And now I can now I know. So thanks for the lenya. Yeah, I do. It is very. I think it's great. Susceptible. It might as well as you can be bought. Yeah, absolutely. All right. Here is question number two.

This comes from Sonia from Ipswich in Queensland. And the question is basically make up a name of a plant. OK, but how do you phrase the question? The question is phrased thusly. What is the common name for the plant? Persicaria orientalis. Thank you. Wait a minute. So what's the common name?

So, you know, like a rose is probably called the flippity, flippity, rosy, or something. Yeah. But the common name is Rose. Yeah. So you're giving it that, you know, but are we taking one that everybody knows? Bottle brush is a costum. You're making one up. So just so you know. We're making it. You want to you don't use a real one. Make one up. So can you.

So for instance, one from a previous episode was like Cathy's nipples. You know, it's something. Yeah. I've made that up in the moment there. But you know, that's the kind of thing that I imagine someone would have written in the past. Can you spell. So glad there's not a Cathy in the room right now. I imagine someone would have written in the past. Right, right. Can you spell? So glad there's not a Cathy in the room right now. I imagine that would be so.

Where do you get your ideas? Connor's nipples. Connor's nipples. That would have been probably the better way to go. Sorry, Connor. Actually, no, that wouldn't have been. Wait a minute. Roses are, I think they're just rosacea. A rose, rosacea. Roses, rosacea. Rosacea.

I can't say it right. Yeah, so that's the Latin or, you know, the scientific name. You want the common name. Can you give it one more time? Yeah, can you say what the word is? I know it doesn't matter. Persicaria orientalis. Persicaria.

Almost definitely pronounced that way as well. Persicaria orientalis. P-E-R, it's P-E-R,s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s- your box. I don't know what that means but I'm guessing it's an extra doughnut. You've just been given a lagniappe or a small gift from a merchant to a customer. And like I said, yeah, it tells a fascinating American story. The word, you know, I love out more from the Cachua native language to Spanish to French and it became this sort of Creole word and hopefully it is Creole. All right, the answers are in for question number two. What is the common name for the plant?

Persecaria orientalis. Jupiter snail trap. Kiss me over the garden gate. Option two. Option three. Nightingale's Revenge. Option four, the Beefsteak Persimmon. Option five, Blue Daisy. Or finally, Percival's Scrot.

Oh boy. Look at the little laugh on his face. Scrot. Oh my God. Juniper, a Jupiter Snail Trap. Kiss me over the Garden Gate. Scrot. Oh, my God. Juniper, a Jupiter snail trap. Kiss me over the Garden Gate. Nightingales Revenge.

The Beefsteak Persimmon. Blue Daisy. Percival Scrot. Claire, what do you think? Oh, my God. What a feast of options. Yes. You've got a green thumb. I have.

The second word is orientalis, right? Lots of plants have that in their name and it usually just means that it's the Eastern version of something. Right. From the, or it's from the Orient, just to be like, super like, like, like it's just, it's not right anymore, but it just means the East, right? Yeah, I think so. But I don't, so there's no clues in that.

But is that all of Asia? Is that what Orient meant? I think I mean, I really feel like when people are attract- attaching species and genus to plants, they still called it the Orient. So it made it made me think that it might be from Asia. There was actually a previous episode where we had a word definition for the word Occidental and that means Western means the West. Yeah, which you don't hear anywhere near as much. There are some Occidentalis. There are some plants with that at the end. And it means the Western, you know, like.

Did any of these say Eastern to you? Ahhhhhhh. Jupiter snail trap, kiss me over the garden gate, Nightingale's Revenge, the Beefsteak Persimmon, Blue Daisy or Percival Scrot. Um. Could be Scrot. Yeah, I don't, I feel like Scrot is very funny. How's it, is it spelt with no A on the end?

Is it just a T? Yeah. Yeah, that's pretty funny, but I don't know. I mean, obviously, the Nightingale's revenge sounds very poetic. Would it be worth writing in as a suggestion for the show? Would it be? I mean, the Scrot is what's worth writing in for, isn't it? A persimmon is a that's a, you know, that's an it's a fruit, isn't it? It's a fruit is an Asian fruit, right?

Beef steak. Oh, do I go nightingale like nightingale sounds right? But do I go nightingale? All right fine. I don't I'm not a girl God Yeah, it's I've been torn up. I hate this game It's a real lovely relationship. Yes You hate playing it and you love when it's over. Bit of fun, but the game loves you. Alistair, what do you think? I just want to say, Claire, I really love how you're able to express your emotions like that so purely. And, you know, no problem. I like, I would like to be able to express myself more purely like that.

You know, you really didn't like having to go through those be able to express myself more purely like that. You know, you really didn't like having to go through those options. Did you make a choice? Yes. I chose the nightingale. Even though I'm suspicious of it, it sounds so much like a plant. Yeah. Yeah.

I chose it. Um, I, I was considering, I mean, you know, that, that what's that messed up one kiss me over the fence. Yeah. Kiss me over the garden gate. You that, that what's that messed up one kiss me over the fence? Yeah, you have the garden guide. You know, that's seems really stupid. And, and, but it makes me think, Oh, you know, is it just stupid enough?

Yeah. Yeah. Cause you know, it's got, it's got all the stuff that old timey people would, would be able to put into things gates kissing. That's two of the main things. Gates, kissing. That's two of the main things that we know. Over, yeah. They had that back then. So I'm going to just go kiss me over the gate. Oh, that's cute. Okay. Locking that in for Alice there. That's nice.

That leaves just Jude. Can you read through my gate? Jupiter snail trap. Kiss me over the garden gate. Nightingale's revenge. The beefsteak persimmon. Blue daisy. Percival's scrot. Beefsteak. Beefsteak. Locking it in.

I'm so tempted to change. But stick by it, you can't play it like this. You can't play it like that. You know, Jude, my reading was that you were beefsteak. Oh. Maybe I am. It was that you had written beefsteak. You know, I just, I don't know. Maybe this is a long game. I thought you were the only person at that table that has beefsteak. It was that you had written beefsteak. You know, I just, I don't know.

I thought you were the only person at that table that has beefsteak in their head, but turns out I was wrong. That's, I mean, I want to say that's like the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me, that I don't feel like I'd ever give off such a strong, like beefsteak kind of energy. So maybe over Zoom, I kind of give off.

You got a you got a filter on there. Yeah, I got a filter. Everyone's a type of meat. Yeah. Also, you're staring at the back of my head, aren't you? So you can't see this, the worried look on my face. I'm just seeing your face. The camera goes to you.

You're getting a beautiful split. Yeah. These are the camera automatically goes to who's talking. That's so clever. It's like we're in the space age. Oh, okay, great. The camera automatically goes who's talking. That's so clever. It's like we're in the space age. This is the future. I'm not going to be such a... I'm not going to change it, but I am going to tell you that when you read it out, I'm

going to tell you which one I was going to choose. Okay. You know, like if I were allowed to change it, but I'm not going to waste anyone's time. Okay. No, just waste it. Just go change. Feel free to waste if you wanted to. Why don't you change it and see how it feels?

Sounds like a couple of people who might not have had theirs chosen. I don't know. So I'll stick with mine. I don't want to make them say that. Change it. Change it. Why not change it? Yeah.

All right. Here's your answers. I want you to stay. Personal Scrot. That was Alistair Trombley-Birtchell. Yeah. That wasn't what I was going to choose, but I love it. Blue Daisy, that was Jude.

That's beautiful. Boring. Yeah, you went boring. You tried to trick me with boring again. I'm not going to be boring anymore. Jupiter Snail Trap, that was Sonia. OK, the question on it. OK, the house.

Sonia. I was very tempted by that one. Yeah, me too. Well, you were more tempted by her other one, Nightingale's Revenge. Sonia writes a good flower. Yeah. I flipped it slightly. Sonia wrote it as Revenge of the Nightingale and I don't know why.

I just wanted to be involved, I guess. Yeah, it's way better. Your version is way better, Sonia. Yeah, that was a great Alleyoop situation. Yeah, great. Good, good teamwork. Jude went for the beefsteak persimmon and Jude, welcome to the big leagues. That was Claire Hooper.

Hello. Who absolutely played you like a fiddle. Yeah, I'm not, I'm in way over my head with this game. I'm sweating. Claire played me with with how capable she was of writing the word beefsteak. Yeah, looks like both of you have got to reassess. What do you think of Claire Hooper? I really thought I had you pinned.

And that means I'll say it's correct. It is Kiss Me Over the Garden Gate. Wow. That is stupid. Did you know that or was that just an inkling? I had no idea. No, that was just an inkling. I don't know. It just seemed like either somebody was going way off the path by writing their option or maybe that was the one. Wow. There you go. Um, I'll show you what it looks like in a second,

but let's move on to question number three. This one, two different people sent this in individually actually, Patrick J. Early from Bendigo and Parker Riley from Richmond VA, which is perhaps Virginia. And their question, Patrick and Parker's question is, What is the unusual name of the New York Mets baseball super fan who passed away this year at the age of 98? He's just got it is we wouldn't know about him if it wasn't for his name being a bit interesting.

You know what I mean? So it's just a normal person with an interesting name. Now, he was 98. So he was born in the. Well, 98 years ago. Yeah. Yeah. 1927. Yeah, and just a little bit back.

So the Mets, that's sport. We're talking in sports. Yes, baseball. Baseball. Major League Baseball. Baseball. Love a bit of that. Take me out of the ballpark. Yep. Oh, hit another home run. Yeah.

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Or whatever they say. Anything to stall not answering this question. While you're writing your answers, I'll let the audience know a bit more about Kiss Me Over the Garden Gate. Sonia writes, this was ridiculously hard to come up with fake flower names as there are so many weird and varied names out there. Well, Sonia, I think you'll already know this, but you did a great job. This is a plant that ranked number 15 on the spruce.com's list of 20 tall flowers

that make a strong impact. Wow. What a countdown. And Marie Ianotti, a flower expert, put the list together and she wrote, Persicaria orientalis, commonly known as Kiss Me Over the Garden Gate, or not weed, is a quick grow- I mean, one is way more fun than the other. It's a quick- Not weed. Tell you what, it isn't.

But it's spelt with a K. Certainly not weed. You know, it's very defensive name that one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's a quick growing annual with spikes of purple pink flowers that bloom from summer to fall above the foliage. The plant or foliage? Foliage.

Foliage. Sorry about that. The foliage. Foliage. Sorry about that. It's a foil edge. Foil edge. The plant reaches around four to seven feet high with a two to four foot spread. It will attract hummingbirds and other pollinators to your garden, but strong winds can damage

it so it must be in a protected site. Mulching is recommended to retain soil moisture. I know they're the kind of tips that people come to this podcast for. I'll tell you what Mulching is never not recommended. Okay. Tell me your time when you don't mulch. Yeah, there isn't one. Come on. Are you padding out for words there? Yes. I think you are Maria or whatever your name is. Yeah Maria was very well remembered, but it is a very pretty looking plant All right, the answers are in. Here's question three. What is the unusual name of the New York Mets

baseball super fan passed away this year at the age of 98? Get ready for this, these are all so good. Oh, this is gonna be great. Mike Cucci. Grease Luddite. Wow. Dick B. Long. Seymour Weiner. Jerry Glasscock. Or B. Long. Seymour Weiner.

Jerry Glasscock. Or Max Bunt. Big fan of each and every one of these. I'd hang out. Imagine that was your like your poker group. Yeah. And get them together with the boys. We're all 98 now, but we still know how to play cards.

I would really like to hear them again if possible. Sure. with the boys. We're all 98 now, but we still know how to play cards. I would really like to hear them again, if possible. Sure. Mike Cucci, Grease Luddite, Dick B. Long, Seymour Weiner, Jerry Glasscock or Max Bunt. Alastair, we're over to you. I like to picture Bunt as also a cock of some sort. Just to get all of them to be in that same category.

I think, yeah, I think Bunt, I think you could make a case for Bunt being added to the long list of dick euphemisms. Yeah, either that or he's like an old guy with it, like just a big firm ass. Yeah. Does that have a D in it? No D. You're like B-U-N-T-D. So like not like the cake. Not like a cake. Oh, not like a cake.

No. More like you're like the baseball hit, if you will. The little bunt. Yeah. I do like Dick B-Long. So I'm going to go with Dick B long. Dick B long. Okay.

Locking in for our. Oh, I see. I was picturing not be long, but yeah, belong. No. Yeah. Well, does that change your answer? Because it is. I mean, I'm going to go with it.

I realise now why regular people would want that. Yeah. But yeah, you're not a regular person now. Stop pretending to be. I just want to take the felt at home. Yeah. Now, Jude, you may have an advantage here as an American. Yeah, I definitely feel that I have it in me right now.

I feel like she revealed her little advantage she had when she said, now that's baseball? Yes. Especially when baseball was a word in the question. Yeah, I was like, now I know that it's sport related. Some reason I'm getting the idea this might be a sport thing. I am. You know how you think you're like a mature, normal person and then you just hear Matt Stewart read out six names in a row that are all just like the, you know, teenage boy humor. And you can't stop laughing. And you're like, well, I guess this is all it takes to make me laugh.

Just a bunch of penis names. Yeah. And your picture in each of them is a little old man as well. So fun. I'm imagining the guy from Up. That's who I've got in my head is this person. Can you read them again? Mike Cucci, Gracease Luddite,

Dick Belong, Seymour Weiner, Jerry Glasscock, Max Bunt. What were the first two? Mike Cucci, Grease Luddite. I'm gonna go with number one. My Gucci. Yeah. And I feel like I'm having what Claire went through with it.

I'm instantly like, what have I done? But your hands still on the pace to your chest parlance there. What's that? Your hands still on the pace. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now that's not Facebook. And the horses can go in L's. Yeah. Your hands still on the pace. Yeah. Yeah. That's the only thing I know about chess. Now that's not baseball. And that the horses can go in L's.

Your hands still on your Gucci. Are you lifting your hand off the horse? Yeah, like let's. Locking in Gucci. Yeah. Don't worry, I know what I want. I would like one glass cock, please. One Jerry Glass cock locked in.

All right, here's our audiences. All fantastic. I just want to right. Here's the answers. All fantastic. I just want to get that right off the bat. Grease Luddite. That was Alastair. So good. Sounds beautiful. If someone's out there who is about to name a racehorse, I reckon there's your answer.

Grease Luddite. Ready to go. Pack it up. Send it out. Melbourne Cup. Here we go. Max Bunt. That was Claire. Max Bunt's fun because the Bunt's a little hit. Max Bunt. I love it. Yeah, it's fun.

Fantastic. It was a fun day. Nobody wanted it. Well, I think it might maybe it was wasted on these two. You appreciated it. Sports Luddots. Mike Cucci, which Jude went for, that was Patrick, aka the house, one of the question writers.

The other question writer, Parker, wrote Dick B. Long, Alastair. Damn! So two points for the house this round. Claire went for Jerry Glasscock, I'm afraid that was Jude. So the correct answer was Seymour Weiner. Great. That's great.

That isn't correct. And apparently he loves it. Or he did. He's dead now, but he he was right in on it. I swear I heard Bart Simpson ask for Seymour Weiner. We've definitely heard that one. Seymour Butts I reckon he has. Yeah, but it is totally, it is totally straight out of the Simpsons playbook. It's making niff a sense.

It's very, yeah. It was too good. Yeah. I was suspicious of it. It was too neat and tidy, wasn't it? Too neat. Yeah. Definitely Moe's Tavern prank call coded, for sure.

Absolutely. Absolutely. So a point for Jude, two points for the house that round. We're at the halfway mark here. It's question number four. Oh my God, I'm always so surprised we're only halfway. You know? Every time I'm in the middle of a horror.

Definitely the common denominator on the chatty episode, which I love. But you're also the person who... How dare you. You're also the person who I think goes, man, this is taking a while. I'm so sorry Claire. I'm enjoying your your company but I should I should keep it moving. We're really problematic because I think that you just respect me too much to stop me from talking all the time. Yeah that's true, I do.

You're a, you're a... I need a firmer hand man Stuart. We're nearly the same age but you're a comedy elder. I feel that too. Okay. Yeah. You're making a comedy beefsteak. Question four comes from, again, two people, Sarah Faith White from Spartanburg, South Carolina and Kayla Hodquits from Lemoyne in Maine. And the question is, what is notable about the English landmark Torpenhow Hill?

What is notable about the English landmark Torpenhow Hill? Can you spell Torpenhow? T-O-R-P-E-N-H-O-W space bar, H-I-L-L, Toppenhow Hill. While you're writing those answers, here's a little more info about Seymour Weiner. Parker says he was a World War II vet and was apparently on board with the jokes about his name. So he probably would have loved being involved

in this podcast. Of discovering his name, Patrick writes, no disrespect to the dead, but this name made me laugh so much when I heard it from a colleague. All in all, it's a really wholesome story. For The Daily Mail, Alex Raskin wrote, a World War II veteran who lived to 98, Weiner told the Athletic last year that his name was never really an issue. The Weiner part of it, he said, was something that in my childhood I was teased about, but there was never the thing of Seymour Weiner, no one put that together. It wasn't until the Mets honoured his military service on opening day in 2024 that fans first

saw his name spelled out on a scoreboard. Reactions ultimately poured in from Queens to Queensland. Weiner told the athletic, did you see they even picked this thing up in Australia? Weiner said, to me it's been so enjoyable. In no way does it annoy me. Just look at all the notoriety I got out of it. The Mets later ran a successful hot dog promotion featuring Weiner. We had this idea of Dollar Dog Night Mets Chief Marketing Officer Andy Goldberg told The Athletic and we were like, well, what would be better than Seymour Weiner? Like many Mets fans, Weiner's love of baseball began with the Brooklyn Dodgers and it was in 1947 that he witnessed Jackie Robinson's first hit at Ebbets Field. Pretty amazing. It was

like the, yeah, I mean it's when you live a hundred years, you'll see a lot of cool stuff. Only 12,000 people were there at the game, Wiener said. So I may be the only person who was there and saw it and who is still alive. Obviously that last bit is no longer true. He wasn't the greatest ballplayer I ever saw, Wiener said, but he was certainly the most exciting. And just who was the best? Well, according to Weiner, it was the centrefielder for the rival New York Giants, Willie Mays, who ended up coming over to the Mets. Anyhow, while you're still writing your answers, let's go for a quick break. Alright, we're back in the answer room for question number four. What is notable about the English landmark, Torpenhow Hill?

Here are your options. It's a steep cliff on the coast near Dover. Torpenhow Hill has three times foiled suicide attempts with people landing safely on a grassy platform just three metres below the cliff top. Option two. It is also known as Beheading Place Hill and is thought to be the location that William Wallace was executed by the English. Option three. That's a strong option.

The landmark was featured in the film Notting Hill. During production, Hugh Grant was caught urinating near the landmark whilst intoxicated. Option four. Checks out. It was built as a shrine to Aethelstan Torpenhow, an early Anglo-Saxon lord who defended Cumbria from the Scots. Option five. It's the world's highest point of altitude a child has ever been recorded making green slime.

Oh my God. I don't know what that means, but it is. Or finally, it gets its name from several different languages and translates in English to Hill Hill Hill Hill. So you've got a suicide preventing cliff. You got William Wallace executed there, possibly. Hugh Grant pissed on it. Named for a guy called Torpen Howe, who was an Anglo-Saxon. Highest point a child has ever been recorded making green slime. I'll tell you what, though.

Slime making, it is the bane of any parent's life. What is that? Let's move on. What is slime making? What do you mean? What slime making? Oh, you can't just buy slime anymore. Your kids have to get the slime making kit.

Do you want to beep out brand names? It's just like the Elmer's slime making kit. And it's like, you got to mix the glue and the activator and then put the food colouring in and it stains the kitchen table. Oh, right. And they just make this horrible mess and then they use up all your Tupperware, storing it all over the bathroom. I thought I honestly thought it was a euphemism for spewing.

Oh, yeah, probably was that. I didn't write that one by the way, just chiming in with a bit of slime angst. If that's the case, that could make sense as like a world record or something. Yeah, I guess so. And then the last one was Hill Hill Hill Hill. Hang on, but you asked Hill Hill Hill Hill or just Hill Hill Hill? Hill Hill Hill Hill or just Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill I can, Jude's answering, but is it really bad? I thought it was my turn to go first. I don't want to, but. Uh, do we start with you?

Yeah. No, I think, I think the only one was Jude. Oh, no, it was Jude. Yeah, cause I remember thinking. Let's go to the tape. It is weird that your episodes do take longer, Claire. No, this is good. Shadow.

I think it was, I think it was me cause I remember thinking like, wow, it's my first time on and I'm getting the first question, like that's rough. I was like, that is. I just, whoever's sitting there is how I remember it understandable Can you please clear does tend to center herself? Yeah That out no I leave it in irony might not be Anyone else done the you know like that online narcissist test and like scored way

better than they expected? Do you feel like just doing the test is like already like a sign that you're sick? They just load up points. Okay, you're doing it. So you're at least 50%. Can you read the first two again? Isn't it the opposite? A narcissist would never think they might be.

Love it. What's happening there? Love it. Yeah, like a true narcissist, like a pure, like a true evil narcissist wouldn't even seek out the test. They would not regard how they might be observed from the outside. I think if you're just a moderate narcissist, then you are curious. Am I a narcissist? To that? Yes. I think the fact that we're even talking about it shows how not narcissistic we are. I think it's actually really good. I was thinking a little thing.

What do you what do you reckon? Can you read the first two for me again? Sure. The steep cliff on the coast near Dover, three times foiled suicide attempts with people landing safely on a grousy platform. Okay. And then the second one? Also known as Beheading Place Hill, thought to be where William Wallace was executed.

I'm gonna go with number one. Number one. Locked in. Claire, what do you think? Oh my God. So despite what I said about Hill, Hill, Hill, Hill, can I just, I just need to pay points to whoever wrote that and also celebrate it if it's true. So I would like to answer it is it translates to Hill Hill Hill Hill.

Locked in. Alistair. He looks like he has this smile of a man who thinks it's Hill Hill. Like is it did you write that one? Is that a face? I reckon he I think he did. I think he did. What does that face mean?

Okay. That's a tricky face to decipher. Yeah, I actually also want to try and write down Hill Hill Hill Hill. You want to include the hill in the name? Yeah, I think one of the hills is Hill. OK, one of the hills is Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill Hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill hill'd be hill, hill, hill, hill, hill. Yeah. Yeah. OK, that's why I was just double checking. Yeah. So it only has to have, you only have to have three hills in that one. Three hills in Torpenhow. Yeah. And what's the first, what's the first word?

What's the first word before hill normally? Torpenhow. Torpenhow. Hill. Yeah. Hill, hill, hill, hill. I mean, that's perfect. That's a good one. It'd be hill, hill, hill, hill for sure. Locking it in? Yeah. You're not in the room, but we're holding hands while we await the end now.

Yeah, like Miss American Pageant. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And Judah's for some reason not in this handshake. I've already been kicked out of the top 10. Yeah. I lost in the swimsuit competition. You're just tucking into some pizza because you've been denying yourself for so long

and then lead up to the comp. That's right. Yeah. You're getting back some of that water weight. Yeah. Which is something that I believe is lost. If I accept that, sounds right. It does sound right.

I'm dumping all that water from the pizza. But I think it's similar. Jockeys and beauty pageants. Yeah, I think it's similar. I think it's similar. Parallels. All right. Here's who wrote the other answers.

Beheading Place Hill or the place William Wallace was executed, that was a little combo effort between the house and Kayla. Kayla also wrote the one about the shrine to Aethelstan Torbenhau, the early Anglo-Saxon lord who defended Cumbria. It was a very good one. Yeah.

It seemed like something written by someone who had time. Yeah, right. The one about making green slime, that was Alastair. Was it? I thought it might be because you have someone in your house who's green slime age, don't you? And was it, was I right? It was about spewing or was Claire right? It was about literally making slime. Literally, literally making slime.

I like how you're fact checking something that was made up. It's really great. I love that. Well, it spoke to me because I... What was your process? It's about it's about how right you were at reading somebody or interpreting somebody. You know, the Notting Hill production where Hugh Grant pissed. How right you were at in at in at reading somebody or interpreting somebody, you know The Notting Hill production where Hugh Grant pissed. Oh, that was Jude Yeah, I almost I almost went for that. But then I thought Notting Hill on a different hill The one about the suicide attempts and the grassy platform Jude went for for that, that was Claire. I'm so sorry, I got you again.

That's so sneaky. So sneaky, also dark. You guys have gone each other a few times. Yeah, we keep. That was a great answer, I thought. That was really good. Oh, thank you so much. I reckon I would have guessed that one too.

But the correct answer was in fact, hill, hill, hill, hill. Yeah! Wow. Can you believe it? Well, tour isn't hill though, that's tower. Oh, yeah, I think. So it's loose, it's't Hill though, that's Tower. Oh, yeah, I think it's very disputed. It's like each of those words is like sort of like Hill, but it's way less fun if you go. Actually, which a lot of people do, but others don't do it all.

I just also, I was really toying between Hugh Grant and Mel Gibson. And I was thinking of doing, like it would be something during the filming of Brave Martians. Oh my God. If they'd made another Braveheart one, I think that would have. You would have gone, it's gotta be one of them.

Yeah, right? Yeah. I don't know why, I just, I didn't wanna go with Mel, I'm like, I don't want Mel Gibson in the answer right now. Right. I just didn't feel it. Is it cause there's like the full on anti-Semitism? Yeah, I'm like, I wanna go for more of that low key, just kind of casual.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not so in your face. Which is what you're implying is what Hugh Grant has? Is that what you're suggesting? Yes. No, I'm not. Please don't make that a thing. Okay.

He's great. We love Hugh Grant. He was excellent in Harrington 2. And Harrington 2. Look at the answers in the demo. One, two, three. What do we say? Heretic. Paddington 2. Paddington 2. I've got to see Heretic. I like him in the Garritchie films as well. Like The Gentleman. He's fantastic. Paddington 2. Paddington 2. So good. There's simply no better villain ever. He's a very good villain. He's a very good Grant in Paddington 2. And Nicole Kidman was

a great villain in the first one. Yeah, she was. But nothing like. But that's Yeah, he's a very good. Grant in Paddington too. Nicole Kidman was a great villain in the first one. Yeah, she was, but nothing like. But that's the, that's why it's a great sequel, because it was a really good first one and somehow it topped it. Yeah, I remember, what did he say? I can't even remember what the sentence was, but he did a very good, and I can't even do the thing because it's too funny. Question five comes from Logan Husky from Brisbane. And the question is, who was the villain that was introduced on episode

29 of the 1960s TV version of Batman? So it was can read the question one more time. Who was the villain introduced? I mean, it doesn't really matter, but it was introduced episode 29 of the 60s, you know, the psychedelic version of Batman, the Adam West incarnation. So TV show, not comic books. TV show, yeah. It wasn't, it was invented for the TV show. Apparently it's since been in the comics, but this one actually debuted.

The TV writers made it up, which is fun. That's interesting. Yeah, I thought it was fun too. So name and a brief description, maybe a sentence or so about their vibe or whatever. Interesting. Yeah, I thought that was fun too. So, a name and a brief description, maybe a sentence or so about their vibe or whatever. While you're writing those answers, here's some more info about Hill Hill Hill Hill. Kayla writes, it's an example of a tautological place name,

but also has no history of actually existing other than lexicographers going on about it. Our previous guest, Tom Scott, did a great video about this on his YouTube channel, where he visited visited the spot where he said in part, there are lots of places in the world which have the same name twice. Places like the Sahara Desert. Sahara comes from the Arabic for desert, so that's desert, desert. Or the River Avon. Avon originally meant river, so that's the River River. There are also a few triple names like that in the world, but Torpenhow Hill in the Lake District

in north west of England is the only place in the world with four words that all mean the same thing. Tor, Old English for Hill, Pen, Old Welsh for Hill, Howe, Old English for a slightly different kind of Hill, and finally, Modern English Hill. Oh, well that was wrong about it being Tower. I was wrong, everyone.

Well, he does say later in this video, maybe people should just watch that video, but he's like, that's the story, but it's kind of been debunked. They actually are all slightly different variations, kind of meaning hill or a higher place or whatever. And also there's not really a hill there, and it's never been on an official map.

It's just something that for hundreds of years, people have talked about. And he went to the spot and he's but then he's like, you know, so that's the thing. And locals don't even pronounce it that way. They call it Trapana Hill. But then he's like, but you know, things are only things because we say they are. So it could be, you know, enough people have said it is. And on some maps, it actually is starting to turn up online, you know, on Google Maps and

stuff. So yeah, it's really, it's an interesting, only four minute video if people are interested. I'll try and remember to post about it. Here's question number five. Who was the villain introduced in episode 29 of the 60s TV version of Batman? Dr. Disco. With his hypnotic disco ball and groovy tunes, this villain can make anyone dance uncontrollably.

His goal, to host the biggest dance party Gotham has ever seen, distracting its citizens while he pilfers the city's treasures. That's option one, option two. Terrence Tentacles, a scout leader who morphs into an octopus creature when he exited his tent-like cocoon, referred to himself as the campus villain of all. Option 3.

The Purple Pimp. In a fur coat and a wide brimmed hat that obscures his face, the Purple Pimp strikes the ground with his golden cane and women are hypnotised to do his bidding, which was never anything more than attacking the police and then Batman. Option 4, Loop de Loop, a maniacal pilot of French origin who flies a tiny plane and engulfs his enemies in a puff of poisonous smoke. Option 5, The Bookworm, clad in a dark brown leather suit. He doesn't have any superpowers but he does have a genius level intellect, can speed read and has a high knowledge of books and their contents. Or finally, Marvin Calvino, the ruthless mafia kingpin with a soft spot for birds.

He's often seen carrying a recently hatched baby bird in his hand which came from the numerous egg incubators in his office. I love a mafia kingpin who refers to his headquarters as an office. Anyway better head back to the office. This mafia work won't do itself. All right Claire. I want it to be him but now that you're riffing off the back of it, it makes me uncomfortable. I'm ripping off all of them. Name me one, I'll riff it. Nah, I'll go with Martin Calvino. Watch it. All right, locked in.

I don't even believe it. Alastair. But the others were too stupid. So, if you want to quickly, Dr. Disco, Terrence Tentacles, Purple Pimp, Loop De Loop, The Wolf Worm, Marvin Calvino. It can't be the octopus because it said he had his tent-like cocoon. Yeah. That's the part that lost me.

I don't know why. It's a scout leader who morphs into an octopus creature when he exits his tent-like cocoon. Yeah, but do octopuses have cocoons? But Disco wasn't until the 70s, was it? I mean, that sounds like a thing, but the 60s was like... Interesting, yes. 60s was still rock and pop and disco was a real 70s, wasn't it? Yeah.

Maybe they were ahead of the time. Maybe they were ahead of the time. Maybe they were ahead of the time. Maybe they were ahead of the time. Maybe they were ahead of the time. Maybe they were ahead of the time. Maybe they were ahead of the time. Maybe they were ahead of the time. Maybe they were ahead of the time. Maybe they were ahead of the time. Maybe they were ahead of the time. Maybe they were ahead ones who coined the name. Yeah, maybe it was 69 and that was how they invented disco. Yeah.

Yeah, that's a really good point. But for some reason, what if it's... I should have let you what if. No, I'm going to still what if it. I'm going to still go disco. Yeah. Alclare's told you that it's not it, basically. I haven't told you that.

I don't know. But you want to lock it in? Lock it in. No, no, no. All right. All right. No, lump it in. You think that a villain on Batman is what coined the term disco? Well, you never know. You never know. It is. OK, well now the house is pushing you.

You know, the Simpsons predicted Trump, you know? Yeah. Maybe Batman produced predicted disco. OK, do it. No, no, no, no. Wait, what was the other one? Bookworm? What did he do? Bookworm sounded good. Purple pimp?

Who with the gold, the magical golden cane, hypnotizes women. I like how we all just like went with like alliteration. What about the Luke the Luke guy? A maniacal pilot of French origin. Bookworm is, he can speed read it and has a high knowledge of books and their contents. You know what? I'm gonna go with Bookworm. Yeah, I think it's a good one.

All right, locked in. Claire picked it. I was thinking Bookworm, but Claire seems so happy that Alistair picked Bookworm and I've guessed like 18 Claire ads, so I'm like, I'm obviously, I've got some, there's something happening. There is a pool there. Yeah, I feel really connected to Claire's answer, so I've got to go against my instincts. Yeah, you've got to go against instincts.

Time to start denying your gut, isn't it? Oh, God. Yeah, I feel really connected to Claire's answer, so I've got to go against my instincts. Time to start denying your gut, isn't it? Oh, God. Do you know one that I'm confident isn't Claire? Well, actually, I know the answer. I can't say that. You can't say that. What were you going to direct it towards?

How dare you? Well, I was just going to come out with one of the poorly written ones that I did. But what do you think, Jed? that I did but what do you think? Jad? Jad? Jad? Jeff? What do you think? Close enough.

So we got, and I thought that Dr Disco was Claire's but then she was like talking us, talking Alice out of it. Unless that's part of our plan, I can't deal with Claire's mind games. I'm not looking at you. So stock to disco. Terrence Standicol's, Purple Pimp, Loop de Loop, Bookworm, Marvin Calvino. I'm going to go Marvin Calvino. I thought it was Bookworm. Because Claire went it, you know that it couldn't have been Claire, so it's the only way to avoid for sure picking Claire.

Is that what you've done? Yes! Is that why you did it? I forgot that you chose that one. But yes, that's what my plan was. Will we win it or we lose it together? We're a team now. This is who wrote the answers. Dr. Disco, he's gonna hate me for not taking the point away from him. That was Logan the question writer. Sorry Logan. But I didn't pick that at all either until you said it like oh my god, yeah, of course Yeah, yeah, that was it's a ten years early for that Terrence tentacles Which I thought was fantastic all the way and including the tent like a coon

That was the house It was so upsetting It was a campus villain of all Very funny very funny. Very funny. Very funny is how people always react to funny things. Very funny. He can't be a scout leader, an octopus and the most camp. And also a tent. He's a tent as well.

Tentacles. Tentacles. Octopus in a tent. OK. I mean, there's stuff going on. It's high concept. There's a lot of ideas here, which I think is maybe what brought your part Jude as well with Loop to Loop. I'm not sure if the TV budget had money for a little plane. A tiny little plane.

It doesn't tiny planes doesn't feel very 60s TV. But I thought it was a it's a great pitch for a villain. I thought it was on the right path. Yes. Yeah. The purple pimp. That was Claire. And I think that was actually that's for a villain. I thought it was on the right path. Yes. The purple pimp, that was Claire. And I think that was actually, that's vaguely close to a real one they invented, which was called the lilac something. I think it's similar.

So it was, I thought quite believable that one. I thought it was quite believable, but they didn't want it. They didn't like it. My friends didn't like it. Which I thought was going to be so funny when Jude was... Going away from Bookworm. I'm like, oh, this would be the best if she moves over to Claire's room. Oh man. But no, Claire and Jude together went for Marvin Calvino, which was Alastair.

Yeah, it's so cute, baby. You deserve the points. The little birds. Yeah, it is really fun. That absolutely could have been one. And also, that means Al got the correct answer, the little birds. Yeah, it is really fun. That absolutely could have been one. And also that means I got the correct answer is the bookworm. That is what I thought.

So we got the full three. I went against my instincts and now I'm... So I got you. I've risked all and lost. Yeah, and I really thought it was the bookworm. So it wasn't, I wasn't delighted you were choosing it because it was mine. It was because I was like already getting by a regret Well, yes, you're right to think that way we're going to the well he did real well

I did really well he lept from last the first so this calls on a dude on to Clare in the house on four, but one point ahead on five points as I said Trombley virtual But you know triple points in the final round so it's truly anyone's game Yeah, and the final question this week we always finish with a movie synopsis question so this is your longest answer be like a paragraph three four five sentences maybe all right one time a listener said you really should explain what you mean by paragraph they fully locked into my head and I do it and every time I do the guests go yeah I know what a paragraph is mate. So the question comes from Brian from Northlake in Texas.

It's been, oh, this is a real advantage for Jude. Yeah, I feel that I've got an advantage already. Home ground. And the question is, what is the synopsis of the film titled Mother, Jugs and Speed? Mother, comma, jugs and speed. Jugs as just, you know, J-U-G-S as opposed to the other one. Yeah, yeah all words as you'd expect. While you're writing these film synopses I'll let the listeners know a bit more about the bookworm. According to Logan the Batman television series which aired from 1966 to 1968 was widely known for its campy approach and colourful cast of villains.

While many were drawn from Batman's comic book history, Joker, etc, the series also introduced several original characters including the Bookworm. According to the Batman fandom, the Bookworm was a villain created for the TV series. The character was identifiable by his thick glasses and dark brown leather suit made to match rare old book bindings. He had an affinity for books and centred many of his schemes around them. The Bookworm appeared in two consecutive episodes of the show, The Bookworm Turns and while Gotham burns. Little was disclosed of Bookworm's origins or motivations over the course of the show, other than the fact that he had an apparent vendetta

against Batman and Robin and committed crimes inspired by literary plots. Like the Riddler, he left clues to lure the Caped Crusaders to the scene of his next crime. The clues, of course, always inspired by books. He also carried knockout gas in trick books, usually the boring type of books that put people to sleep like the Congressional Record. That's a bit of fun. By the end of the story, it was revealed that his ultimate objective was to steal a heavily guarded stockpile of valuable books. This guy is obsessed. Despite his ability to speed read and plan crimes like a book outline, the one thing that makes Bookworm angry is the fact that, at heart, he is a

frustrated novelist who has writer's block. While Bookworm wasn't created for the comic book version of Batman, he has since appeared in the comics as well. According to the fandom, Bookworm was apparently one of the villains considered to appear in Batman, the animated series. However, Bookworm could not be used as a result of the rights to the character being held by the American Broadcasting Network and not DC due to the characters having been created for the show. How interesting. His henchmen? I don't- these are these henchmen's names. Pressman, I don't, these are these henchmen's names. Pressman, printer's devil, typesetter, and worm. I don't think they're, I don't think any of those are good.

Typesetter's such a funny name for a bad guy though. Actually, I'm on board, I've come full circle on that one. I'm in. All right, so the answer for the final question here, what is the synopsis of the film, Mother, Jugs and Speed? Option 1, a fast-paced Prohibition-era romp. New Moonshine runners Mickey and Mallory get on the wrong side of the authorities when

their booze-filled Dodge Charger crashes into and blows up the police station. With the cops on their tail, and Susie Bahamas or Omaha's cruelest moonshiner slur out for blood. Will they get enough money to save their grandma's bowling alley? I like I like a time shifting sort of re historical fiction sort of thing where you got dodge charges in the prohibition era and all that and bowling alleys Are you picking this one apart a bit? No, I'm not saying I love it.

Okay. I haven't seen the film nor read any of these before including the real one if I'm being entirely honest. Great. I put this together very late last night. Yeah. So I'm enjoying each of these on its merits. Option 2. Down on his luck, milkman Larry Forsyth has to find a way to make up for lost income when the local grocery store starts undercutting his prices.

After an unexpected run-in with a local pimp and drug dealer known as Mother, Larry hatches a foolproof plan to make up the difference, by selling and delivering methamphetamine from his milk truck. Things start to go wrong when a bag of crank ends up in a milk delivery to the local orphanage. It's option two. Love that. So far that's two for two for me. I want to see both of these. This is going to be quite a movie marathon. Option three. Two trucking brothers attempting to meet a tight cross-country deadline must bring their bad-tempered mother along after she mouths off at a prominent Chicago gangster.

Pursued down Route 66 with a haul of electronics, they attempt to make it to Los Angeles alive, and without killing each other. Option 3, another hit if you... I'm green lighting them all. Any of the ones that haven't been made will be made. Option four. The City of Los Angeles decrees that the private ambulance companies who consistently arrive at the accidents the quickest will win the contract to do the job full time. When the F&B ambulance company struggles to be faster than the competition, driver Mother Tucker, played by Bill Cosby, is partnered with Tony Speed, Malatesta, Harvey Cotell,

a former police officer. The two are joined by jugs, Raquel Welsh, a beautiful woman who has just completed her EMT training. The trio must keep their heads while performing their dangerous job. That's option four. Well, I'm not sure if I'm green lighting and Bill Cosby led. Yeah, understood. But you know what? Flip him out.

Yeah, we can flip him out for sure. You got a viable project. Louis C.K. or something like that. Option five. This 1998 cult favourite film follows 30 year old Rita Banks, a struggling single mother working as a receptionist at a high flying law firm in Chicago. Sorry about the accent there. Working late one night, she overhears her boss implicated in an insider drug deal.

She and her best friend, Julie Jug'svenito, decide to leverage their knowledge of the illegal activity to blackmail the law firm and save Rita's baby who needs a life saving medical procedure. There's been a lot of Chicago and LA so far. Interesting. Finally, in the future, the sport everyone watches is zero-gravity football. Star player Jim Bexley, Jim Bexley Speed, full name, of the London Jets is at the height of his career when it all comes crashing down when he finds out his long-time girlfriend

Christine is pregnant to his teammate Reggie Juggsjogowski. Trying to balance the betrayal inside the locker room and the bedrooms, Speed must learn whether to forgive the woman he loves or seek revenge in the only way he knows how, on the zero G field. Oh wow. Wow, you know when you're like waiting all through six of them because you're like.

These are all silly. Well, we'll get there. Yeah. One of them will be the one. Yeah, those those kind of movies don't get submitted into this section of the show. Claire was hoping for the English patient or something. I'll try and go through briefly. Al, you've got the first crack.

So you've got the fast paced prohibition era romp. Then you've got the... I do love the word romp. Yeah, it's convincing. Fast Pace Prohibition-era Romp. Then you've got the- I do love the word romp. Yeah, it's convincing. The Milkman, drug runner, who accidentally delivers to the orphanage. Some crank.

I appreciate the opportunity to say that word. Don't think I ever knew what it meant before. Then we've got the Trucking Brothers who have to take their mother along for the ride to protect them from a Chicago gangster down Route 66. Then you've got Bill Cosby as an ambulance driver. I mean that one is so strange that they would, that they casted it, that they had the confidence to cast it.

Three big names too. In different ways. Option five. One just by too. Yeah. Yeah. In different ways. Option five. One just by number of letters. No. Some of them are quite short in that manner. Option five was in 1998 cult hit with the single mother working at the high flying law firm in Chicago

over his dodgy deal and leverages that to blackmail the boss. Or finally Zero Gravity Football now being played in London. This is a wild futuristic tale. Big budget film that one sounds like. Well that's the thing, I mean it sounds like I love that one but that's big budget. That's high, it's high concept. High, high contact. Con- concept high octane. High- and high contact. High contact. Free kick for London Jets.

An octane is really just an anagram, isn't it, of contact? Oh, wow. No, it's not. There's an E there that you can't put anywhere. Shut up. I just- Shut up.

Shut up. I feel so like- Nice try, Alastair. Shut up. I just shut up. I feel so like. Nice try. Yeah, not. You're not getting that one past us. I feel so intellectually. Because I was about to say, yeah, sure. I'm on to you. Yeah, nice try. Got to get up pretty early in the morning.

Don't forget you're in the past, mate. There are hours ahead of you, buddy boy. I'm going to go. I'm going to go. I'm going to go zero G. Zero G, locking that in for us. Oh, wait. No, yeah, I'll go zero G.

Oh, you know why? He's speaking a safe one because both Jude and I had problems with zero G. So he's like, well, I can. It's not written by them. Yeah. He's playing a very safe game. Interesting. Yeah.

But that doesn't mean someone else didn't write it. No, it doesn't mean people. Yes. A Hollywood maybe script writer. Yeah. Maybe wrote it on spec and somehow got picked up and, you know, was sitting in a pile for years. Yeah, it's all kinds of crazy stories about these movies.

Got the budgets ready. And every time it's like that, I can't get a TV show up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then you look at that. And then someone involved has a clickable name on Wikipedia and their parents go all the way to the top. Yeah. Hey, that's all I'm saying. I'm saying Hollywood's run on nepotism.

That's why we can't get a break. That and I've never really attempted. But why even bother trying when you know. When yeah, it's basically Spielberg Jr. and the gang. And. Assuming he's had a kid. Anyway, Truett, what do you think? So I'm kind of like, yeah, the like, I'm just wondering who would put Bill Cosby in there.

Like, it just seems like. Who'd do that? Who would? Yeah, just you're really just changing the tone by doing that. So. Yeah, there's there's other guests on the show that you might be like, I know, who's put that in. But there's no obvious. Yeah, I'm not getting a strong like I'm going to put Bill Cosby there and see what that feels like. No, it was like the edgiest of edgelords on today. Not so much. No.

So, OK, I know you have to go soon, sorry, but we're- I don't, it's fine. Oh my God, look at the, look at the time. It's all right. Well, this is all, it's always, I always look over and it's an hour and 40, and we're like, how does this happen again? Because we're aware of it too.

We're like, we won't let that happen again. And then we get cocky somewhere and then we go question four. Next time though, Claire, we're going to be so efficient. I'm never doing this again. Shut up. Prohibition. Yes. And then what were the other five?

Prohibition, Milkman, Drugs Dealer, Truckin Brothers with the Mother, Escape and the Chicago Gangster down Route 66, Bill Cosby is in the ambulance, 1998 cult favourite with the receptionist, Blackmail and the Boss, or ZGF zero G football. Yeah. I'm going to go with her. I'm the Harvey Keitel one. Harvey Keitel. I like how you've. Really, I think if you know, I understand why you didn't say Bill Cosby.

Well, why not the Raquel Welsh one? Yeah, I just I just feel more comfortable if a man is in the league. I just feel weird otherwise. That does feel like a wild movie that somehow feels. Yeah, like I reckon I reckon she's onto something just yeah, man, that is. Well, that is such a good one. But I'm just going to go for the. I'm going to go for the law firm cult hit.

I don't I don't believe it because I feel like I've not heard that. Like what cult hit have we not heard anyway? I want to dove in. Yeah, not as my answer. Cult hits interesting. Yeah. All right. Locked in.

Oh, 98. Here's that one was not all of them. Oh, that was the only one that specified. Oh, OK, OK, OK. All right. Here's who wrote the answers. The down on his luck milkman who ends up sending crank to orphanage kids. That was Brian, a.k.a.

The House. Fantastic work. The one about the Prohibition era romp. That was Alcetron Bluebird. Yeah. Well done. It was. Did you do that? That sort of timeline mashing of the like the 20s and the 70s together? Was that?

Yeah, I hadn't really thought about timelines. Maybe. I liked it. You said earlier that you don't are not interested in time. Yeah. Which kind of makes sense now. Time does not mean anything to me. Yeah.

It was the grandma's bowling alley that really got that was when I was like, I don't know. I feel like you should have stopped a sentence ago. You went for one where Bill Cosby's trying to race to accidents. Yeah, but she's probably going to win. The one about two, surprise no one picked this, two trucking brothers. I definitely want to see this film, Pursued Down Route 66. That was Claire Hooper. Thank you.

It does sound like a movie. I was thinking about that one. It sounds like a movie. And then you resisted because you knew you were being tricked by hoops again. Yeah. That's a shame because it was a good, it deserved a point. It did deserve a point. Sounded a bit like, yeah, Throw Mother Off The Train or something, right?

So yeah, some great 80s. Stop or my mom will shoot. It's an era. Yeah, there was that one with De Niro and he's like taking someone across country, but he won't fly, so they have to drive across that. Midnight run? Midnight run, yeah, so good. Zero G Football, Alistair went for that.

That was also Brian, aka The House. Good one. Yeah. Reggie Jugsczekowski, I reckon that probably got you over the line right now. No, I know, but the thing is that it got me over the line and it was also the thing that made me know that it wasn't real. OK. Jude. No, sorry. OK. Jude. No, sorry, Claire.

Yeah. All right. Went for the 98 cult favourite film. That was Jude. Yeah, we've got it. There's a connection. Yeah, there is a connection. There is a different connection.

I love it. I'm here for it. I don't care if Alistair Trembley-Birdrill wins because Jude and I love each other too much. Friendship! Because friendship. Yeah, what's the real prize? Well it's triple points, Jude just got triple points. And that means Jude is also correct, that Bill Cosby in an Ambulance movie is real apparently. It sounds real.

Boo. I thought you were real close, I thought you were going to go for it there in the end Claire, which would have entirely changed the results. Would it? But man, you could. Yeah, it would have made you one. But if you. How would it have I have won?

Triple points. You're already at. Yeah. But I guessed hers. So she got all these points. But if you had guessed it. Yeah, if you had guessed it, you wouldn't have guessed it. If I had guessed all of them right, I would have won. But yes, you wouldn't have got guessed in this scenario.

I don't actually. I don't know. Yes, I understand what you're saying. But I'm not sure now. You've confused me. I really felt like that was the one, but I was really dead. You, you, I think you play the game for more than just winning. You play it for like a... I'm sorry, I'm getting emotional.

You played in the right spirit. I just think it's beautiful. Thank you. So this film is real middle of the road with the critics, 53% on Rotten Tomato, audience only slightly better, 54%. Roger Ebert didn't like it, gave it two out of four. But a Rotten Tomato's audience review was slightly more positive with Deli Sid D writing, I enjoyed the film pretty different sort of a comedy that's not funny. And that was that was they gave it three out of four. I feel like I've read I've gotten like reviews like that of my show. It's like a comedy that's not funny. So the final scores are

in fourth place on four points it's Claire Hooper in equals second on five points it's Alistair Trombley-Burchill in the house but leaping out of the lead on eight points it's Jude Pearl. Who saw that coming? Not me. No I'm surprised too. I think part of my win is due to the fact that it feels like Alistair and Claire both were like, I know it's wrong, but I want this to be over, like in the last question, so you're like, I know, just let's wrap it up. If Claire instead went for the gut instinct and it would have been Jude the house and Al all on five, Claire out in front on seven. That would have felt delicious. I actually felt like Claire, like you gave, you let me have that. That's where it feels like you kind of, there's something really generous about it. You just.

Maybe I felt bad for all the tricks that I'd pulled on you earlier. All right, before we go, Clare, where can people find you? The worst, you've just done a new season. Yeah, well, yes, and and have wrapped it a hundred episodes. Oh, yeah. So, Pete, fully wrapped And and have wrapped it 100 episodes. Oh, yeah. So people are fully wrapped or you never say never. You never say never. It's but I reckon it might be the end of it because it's like

because I do it for free. I haven't monetized it. And there's a point where you're like, you just done a hundred of these for nothing. So I really enjoyed it. Your app is still one of my favorite. Dude, I'm pretty sure you're the first person I ever asked to be on it. And now it's finished and never went on it.

That's so sad. Isn't it sad? That makes me feel really sad. Just a hundred chances, Jude. You know, you get asked a hundred times, eventually people are gonna stop asking. Yeah, but people should listen to the Matt Stewart ep. It's a really good one.

That was so fun. Yeah, I think I was, you know, I talked about shameful things I've done. That's the point. Yeah, that is the. That's the point. And Jude, where can we find you? I just at Jude Pearl. Pearl is spelled without the A.

It's confusing, but you'll figure it out. And yeah, you're going to be you're going to be on the Darwin Festival if anyone's listening up there. Yes, I'll be there for sure. And Alistair, how about you? Hi, you can find me on Instagram at a Trombley virtual, but you just find me at Toon the Think Tank that I do with Andy Matthews. It's my life's work, really. And you got a huge episode coming up.

Oh, yeah, it's probably in October and we're going to be there to do the 500th episode. The 400th took 21 hours. And we'll see how long this coming up with 500 sketch ideas will take. Oh my God. So good. Thanks so much for joining us. So good to catch up Al.

Man, it's so nice to get to do this. Thanks so much for listening everybody. Please give us a five star review, why not? Tell your friends if you think you know anyone who might enjoy it and cheers for tuning in to Who Knew It with Matt Stewart. Now that you know it, I've been Matt Strowart. Goodbye.

Cause once we start recording, we're getting immortalized. Yeah. That's, that's what is your hat say recording in progress It's some It's some Italian thing. I looked it up recently. Hang on. It's like chow bra or something like that chow Yeah, and I think let me just see

Yeah. And I think, let me just see. Do they like you in Canada or does it turn out the thing that made you special was you had a different accent? Oh, I'm hitting the same ceiling at the middle that I did in Australia. But you're getting there a lot quicker. Sounds promising. You were still doing music open mics this far in your Melbourne career. That's right. And so luckily I'm now on gigs that pay $30.

Canadian? So, yeah, so that's pretty good. That's not bad. That's pretty good. If you're sending that money back home to Australia. It means hello, Brio. OK. Yeah.

Hello, Brio. Wait, no, bye, Brio. Why hello? Ciao. I don't know, ciao could be hello. Oh, yeah, ciao can be hello and goodbye. All right. Isn't ciao both ones?

Both ends one. Yeah, I think ciao is very efficient like that. Yeah. The bloody double ended greeting. Bookends. But not in France. That's not that it's not the same. No, it's not. They're two different words. Don't say child in France.

I don't. Yeah, I hear that they don't. I was watching I was watching a French reality show in French. Whatever. A big deal. And and I learned a new hello and I've already forgotten it so that's annoying isn't it. Was it like like it was a young person's yeah that's right. It was a little. So. Cuckoo.

Oh that's right. Cuckoo my share. Cuckoo. They love cuckoo in France yeah. Cuckoo. Don't teach you that on Duolingo. Oh yeah and you're on a hot streak. Is that correct?

How many days? How long is your streak? Like I saw you sat on stage or on your TV show or in person. Wow, I can't believe that is so boring of me. Thanks, ATB. Well, you're, I mean, it's a four or five night a week, so you got to... Yeah, eventually you're going to say all the things. You're going to say everything.

Do you need any explanation of this show? Because I've given you none. Well, but it's so it's like we're answering and you're saying. Yeah, and then I'll read out all your answers. Then we guess. And then you guess what the correct one is. And I also have two fake ones myself. So you're going to have six options for each question.

Crazy. Six sixes. It's all about sixes, I've just realised. Yeah, that's the big number. Yeah, three sixes. This is actually, you know, a show dedicated to my Lord and Saviour. Hail Satan. And does anything happen at the end that I can't remember? I'm trying to know like it.

We just it just finishes. We'll go home. Lewis already home. Yeah, that'd be the dream, wouldn't it? Living in Canada. So good. Also, I want to just I didn't say hi properly, Alice, because I was. I was good to see you. Good to see you too. I was moving.

I had a chair situation when you jumped on, so I didn't get to properly say hi. So I just, before we started, I just... Well... Hi. It's so nice to get to finally say hi to you. I feel really good about that. Or ciao, as they say in Italy. Oh, beautiful.

Oh, wow. Buona sera. Is that anything in there? Oh, yeah. Is that anything. Yeah. Buona sera. Is that anything in there? Oh, yeah. Is that anything? All the, buona sera, bad sera, all the good stuff.

Yeah, yeah. All right, sick. Let's get into it. What do you think about me playing as the house? You had a little reaction to that. Was it a positive or negative one? Um it was more the the way that you said house that I really enjoyed. Okay you enjoy that's good. It was kind of like playing for my house like there was a nice like it was a beautiful contour. In a live show in

Brisbane a few months ago, Ree Down hated it and really begged me to stop doing it. So, hated that you played. That I said it like that. Oh, right, yeah. I feel like that says something more about Ree than you. I feel like if, you know what I mean? Like if you're having a strong reaction to that, my question is, what is it about that contour

that upsets you? Yeah, great. It's kind of like a tiny song. It's like a two note song. Yeah, yeah. The house. The house. You should get into jingles, Matt.

Oh, I'd love to get into them. Instead of either one or two note jingles. Yeah. Oh, I think, yeah, the, you you know the better better value the more efficient I used to know a three one a three note one which was by man and you know that one Is that awesome? Man, and it was like a deodorant. Oh, I'm an enough for a man But mate no, no, it's probably a strong enough for a man, but made for a woman

By man and what does that mean the more you it, the more I want to buy it. Is that so? It's very effective. Today I had my first raccoon encounter today. Oh, wow. Yeah, it was good. It was knocking over. Well, my first where it's like my problem to deal with. Yeah. You know, is it is it the kind of thing that like Canadian would normally catch it, skin it and wear it as a hat? Is that a Canadian thing?

Yeah, I think I think. That guy who has the Comedy Award written named after him. Who's that guy? Barry. Davey Crockett. Yeah, Davey Crockett is. Sorry, hang on, Barry Humphreys? No, he's American guy, the American Comedy Award.

I think I say I'm cable. I want to say Winston Churchill. No, no, Mark Twain. Mark Twain, the other guy that's always quoted as- Oh my God, Mark Twain, Barry, you started with Barry. Has everybody else done their answers? Did it take me that much longer than everyone else? It's possible.

There's no, but that's fine. Yeah, well, I'm just taking it pretty seriously. You're just an artist. I'm going to speed it up, I'm so sorry. No, you're in it to win it. Yes. No, I'm not, I assure you, I'm not. I just, I turned up.

I'm here for the great company. And the company's here for you. It's really nice to get to be in your company, Claire, whilst being televised. Yeah. I I think this is such a powerful trio that we've put together today. Is it you like the answers we gave? I like the answers. I like the vibe. I think this is going to be a great time.

I just want to also before we go into the answers, I just want it to be known. I'd really like to hear the raccoon story. Yeah. At some point. Yeah, maybe. If you finish your answer next round, we can continue the story. No problem. It's not going to be as satisfying as it could be, but you know what I mean?

You got a little story. You got a little bit of time to think about how to maybe. I'll punch it up. Punch it up. In the downtime. So the answers are in for question number one. What does the word lanyard mean? An abandoned.

Oh, I'll try that again. Sorry, Connor. Connor's the editor. Jude, you need to refer to Connor. I sort of understood from the context. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But. Imagine if he wasn't. Sorry, Connor. He's just a person. If it was just a child or something like that. Oh, I've disappointed you again in a chart.

Sorry, Connor. I'm sure Connor will fix it in person, if it's not with a robotic voice. Oh, don't worry, Connor, I won't do that to you. It is. Worry a little bit. It is Spanish Creoles. You have Spanish Creoles. Did I nail it? You absolutely nailed it.

And Creoles got French in it, right? Right. As well? Yeah, I think so. I do. I think it's the sameole's got French in it, right? As well? Yeah, I think so. I do. I think it's the same people that landed here in Quebec that then traveled down through the middle of America and that went down to, you know, what's that place where there was the thing where the wall collapsed and everybody was New Orleans.

Berlin. Sorry. Yep. New Orleans. Oh, my. Yep. New Orleans. Oh my. Mr Gorbachev. Tear down this wall. Was it you, Al? Did you have a bit that was Mr Gorbachev tear down those pants or something?

Was that you? There used to be, I think it was Megan Amram on Twitter, used to be Mr Gorb on Twitter used to be Mr. Gorbachev. Pair up this ass. That's a good, that's a good bit. Is that the kind of stuff you might get on ABC's, uh, Claire Hooper's, the House of Games? Yep. You don't want to be associated with it anyway. Do they put ABC and the Claire Hooper both apostrophied.

What's that? Sorry. Do they do they? ABC is not in the name. It just clear with an apostrophe. I guess you'd say clear Hooper's House of Games on ABC. Yeah. Yeah. We don't tend to put it in the title.

It's like ABC apostrophes implied or something or not. Not so much. No. What or not, not so much. No. Sorry, what? What? What? No, don't worry. Abort.

No, I mean, you know, absolutely. If you, if you were saying, yeah, it's ABCs, cause it is kind of like he was commissioned by ABC, so I guess you would make it a possessive if you were going to try and phrase it like that. But I certainly, when, um, when I, when I am requested to post about it, tend to put on ABC at the end instead of that makes sometimes ABC TV's with an apostrophe to answer your question. ABC TV is Claire Hooper's house of games, but you'd usually that's just too many apostrophes at the top end of a post.

Is it true? Yeah. People won't read through that. You've got to balance it out with some commas. Yeah, well, it's just, I mean, like an apostrophe is too easily mistaken for a full stop. People just stop reading. All the time. Stop reading right after ABC TV.

They're like, the end. Maybe I'll check that out. ABC TV sounds interesting. Claire, can I ask you a question? Yeah. Where did the words beefsteak come to you? I'll tell you. So there is a really great tomato called the beefsteak tomato and in person is a really really similar shape. And I thought, imagine a, imagine just a really swole persimmon, you know, so it's no longer smooth. It's got kind of like ripples down. It's bulging flesh.

Yeah, right. That's what I imagined. I imagined a big steak persimmon. You were just picturing a- I was riffing. I was picturing- An absolute ripped vegetable. I was picturing those slim persimmon branches just drooping right down as its fruit grew heavy.

Wow. This is, it's like you did a whole, maybe that's why I chose it is because I could really feel the backstory of this. Yeah. I was like, you had, yeah, you'd really put that into the air and I ate it up. Yeah. It would be so delicious. I love a persimmon.

I had no idea there was botanical connotations. You see, I thought that maybe in some way Jude's American origins of some sort, you know, had allowed her to tap into sort of the red meat culture of some sort. Alleged American. Yeah, it was really good. You don't have any American connection at all. Sorry, beefsteak is more of a red meat culture of some sort. Alleged American. Yeah, it was really, you don't have any American connection at all. Sorry, beefsteak is more of a red state word. It's more of a red state than a blue state word, isn't it? Red state.

Mmm. Gosh, it's been a long time since I've. Which state were you from? Texas. Oh, it was a red state. Okay, well I really, I was wrong. They put the colours there, don't they? Red is. Yeah, yeah.

Red is. Yeah. Red is conservative. Blue is slightly less conservative. Yeah, yeah, yes. Whereas here it's the reverse. All right. We learned on last week's episode that space bars were invented in the 1840s or something. What? Jordan Barr. there was a question that was

from the 90s and it referenced space bars and Jordan Barr said, were space bars invented in 1995? And I'm like, yeah, and then I'm like, I doubt it, I'm going on. They were invented like a long time ago. Anyway, fun fact or not. That is a fun fact. I think the funnest fact about it is that Jordan thought they might not have been invented. Oh my god bless. You know when you think, like I respect Jordan,

but I'm like. Do I, should I? Do you not believe that the world existed before you were born? Yeah, 95. Like we had keyboards. Like the... Yeah, and then we were like,

oh, typewriters? You know, they go a ways back. Yeah. That's a good, yeah, I would not thought 1840s. Before space bars, it was all just run on... You just had to guess where each word ended. Yeah, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious was written before the space bar.

Can I just double check? So the question was, what what is notable about notable? So, you know, it's known for you know, if you Google it the first sort of fun fact about it would be that kind of idea Or or interesting or whatever what it's known for Ben in Max b Bunt, Bit of fun. What was that jingle of the, the deodorant, the three tone. By men and by men and by men and beautiful. Strong enough for a man made for a woman. That's all I want in life.

But the deodorants here burn my armpits. Why? So hang on. That doesn't that sound like a terrible. What was your what did you say? And then I go, man. Yeah, it you say? It was tough enough for a man. Yeah. It's actually too strong for a man. Made for a woman.

By man and by man and by men and getting some good ad running on this. Oh yeah. By men and. Uh, can you bleep out whenever you leave the by bit in, but bleep out Menon. Bye. What were they? But can you make the beeps go in with the right tone? Uh, beep, beep, beep.

Um, we still need to hear the raccoon story. Oh yeah. I went outside. Wait hold back because we're almost back. Remember Claire is starting to feel like this is taking too long. Oh yeah. Shut up. Do you think that there, because I'm aware that I'm the slowest to write answers every time, but there should be, there should be one additional point that you get at the end

of the game for being the person who does the promptest replies. Oh that's not bad. It's like bringing back a little bit of the buzzer energy, but not completely. A little bit. Because I think you could get, I certainly personally can get into a little bit of a spiral of being like, oh no, I can do better than this. Yeah. It's kind of like the time when it's...

What about the person with the... Sorry. No, you go, you go. No, mine's just going to be, what about the person... Wow, this feels really 2020. What about the person? This feels really 2020. What about the person with the longest fingers gets to win? I reckon the house is looking at me. I've got chubby little carrot fingers over here. Oh, actually, I think this is not a bad finger off.

It's a finger off, everybody. And is it in relation to you do have a long finger or what? Anyway, including do we include the palm? Or is it just no, you don't include. You could have little stubs in a long palm and you win a long finger. Come on, just think. Now I'm imagining like the tiniest little palm with like really long. Yeah, like full around your tongue. Thank you. Now I'm imagining like the tiniest little palm with like really long fingers.

But like fuller on your tango. What you've just described is Matt Stewart's foot. Yeah can you include toe fingers? Can you use toe length to help you as well? Excuse me, my name is Matt Stewart, can I please end of my toes in the longest finger competition? Ah. Alissette, ages ago you wanted to say something.

Was it just to remind us what time it is in Canada? No, no, no, I have no interest in time. I'll try to make up something to say. Well, now you've got the bandicoot story. Raccoon. Oh, the raccoon. Well, the Canadian bandicoot. Yeah.

I went outside, there's a little food scrap bin and something had been The raccoon? Oh, the raccoon. Well, right outside. The Canadian bandicoot. Yeah. I went outside, there's a little food scrap bin and something had been knocking it over that I thought was squirrels. And then today I went out and there was a gigantic sort of cat sized, but like a huge cat sized thing. And I was like- Like a tiger? And turned out it was a raccoon.

Whoa. Wow. And when I approached, he didn't run away straightaway and I was like Oh, he's too comfortable with me and then he did go but then he kind of just didn't go that far and then just kept Watching me and then I picked it up. Yeah, you picked it up. Yeah, I picked up the thing Okay good and then just as I was walking back to the to the house he sort of he sort of head straight back for the bin, knocked it over again. Then I went back and then I had to jam it against him.

But it was nice that he was like, I don't know, I felt like I like I'm not angry with him. I just want to do something to stop him from getting into the bin. Yeah. There's an old Maria Bamford bit where she sort of acts out a raccoon from a bin. That's what I think. I picture I've never seen a raccoon, but that's what I picture. Maria Bamford talking where she sort of acts out a raccoon from a bin. That's what I think. I picture, I've never seen a raccoon, but that's what I picture. Maria Bamford. Talking about.

A raccoon. It's cause they've got hands. They seem adorable. They've got little hands so they can really get into things. Oh, so good. They're really, yeah, they're tiny little hands. And their head has a lot of personality. It moves like, hey, I'm curious.

Like what's happening here? Oh, yeah. So yeah, they're not really like bandicoots at all. But I don't know why anyone suggested they were. Because of the double O. That's what it is. That was probably all it was, I think. Yeah.

So Claire, just think about that. It was probably just the double O. It was, yeah, just the coup. That's right. Chief O Officer. What's right. Um, Chief, uh, Officer. What's that one? Doesn't matter. The CEO? Chief Operating Officer? Operating Officer.

Yeah. That tricky first R always gets me. Ask me. I know all about execs. Tell me. Ask me any questions. There's so many. Yeah, there's so many. Just giving away titles like it's... Yeah.

I don't... when I was a kid I was CEO or nothing. Exactly. CEO? Is there a CEO? Mail room. That's it. Nothing in between. Come on!

Maybe you can pull yourself up by your bootstraps to make it to the top. But good luck. I don't know. Question five. Man, I'm... I'm tiring. I highly doubt anyone has four minutes to spare after listening to this.

It's so funny, I summarised part of his four minute video and it probably took me longer than four minutes to do it. Oh my gosh, Claire gets quick points this round. First in. I get some points. Oh my gosh, Claire gets quick points this round. First in. I get some points. No, I'm just saying you're the first one in, although you didn't give them a description. Give them like a sentence or so describing their vibe or powers or whatever. Well now I'm going to have to do it.

Sorry everyone. Or I could riff something if you like. Don't you dare. Alright, I've taken the quick points off Clare and given them to Jude. Thank you. Thank you so much. I mean, they're fictional points, but all the same, I think. Man, I'm so wide. I was up late writing these last night. I did a couple episodes and only got like four and a half hours sleep and I'm feeling like it's just hit me now.

I'm feeling very. Yeah. Spicy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's almost a nice feeling. It's like relaxing. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

You go. It's nice when you can go into that sort of delirious place. Yeah. That's the sweet spot. And asleep deprivation. It always it takes me back to uni where I just like nearly every assignment I ever did was an all nighter. Yeah. Go and hand it in and that feeling afterwards just like, whoa. Yeah.

I had to pass a pub on the way home, so normally, yeah, felt a little space here again. Got to celebrate. A couple of pots. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Like, oh, I'll never have to do work again. Should you start planning the next one that's due in a week and a half?

Yeah. Or no. No, I'll never have to do this again. As far as I can put my mind to right now. Like I am. I'm back at uni at the moment. Oh, my gosh. And what are you doing at uni? I'm studying arts therapy.

Well, and I had an assignment and I forgot that feeling that you're describing, Matt. Of I asked for an extension and then I was like, great. Now I don't have to do it. And I'm like, that's not. No, no, no, no. You've got this. Oh, man, I remember that feeling. Yeah, yeah. You're saying yes.

Float that with it. Yeah. I still have that feeling with different like like a podcast or something. It's like, oh, you don't have to prepare that thing till next week now. Oh, great. Well, I'll stop thinking about it entirely. It's you just like, oh, you don't have to prepare that thing until next week now. Oh, great. Well, I'll stop thinking about it entirely. Did you just actually feel it escaping your brain? Gone.

Yeah, it's out. Where in Texas were you from, Drew? Anywhere near Northlake? I don't think, I don't know where Northlake is. I was sort of from a very small town called Winona, which is the closest big city would be Dallas. Gotcha. Yeah. It's so freaking huge.

Yes, it's like it's like it's as big as Victoria. It's like that big, isn't it? It's like as big as one of the smaller Australian states. Yeah. And then you're like, they're going on to have that big it is. And then you look at Western Australia and you're like, please. But then you also realize, oh, it is also on the smaller Australian states. Yeah, yeah. And then you're like, they're going on and how about big it is. And then you look at Western Australia and you're like, please. But then you also realize, oh, it is also on the outskirts of Fort Worth, Dallas, North Lake. So you were neighbors.

We were neighbors in a different timeline. How many lines did you say? Because I'm up to about my 15th sentence, Because you didn't clarify how long a paragraph is. And I refuse to edit this down. I'm not killing my darlings. No, no. I think that, well, isn't that what people say? Never kill your darlings.

Yeah, they say don't do it. Yeah. Why would you kill your darlings? No, each. You love them? You love each vowel, each consonant. Equally. Each full stop. That's right.

Each comma, each dash, each colon. Yeah. Even the semicolons. Especially the semicolons. It's 1230 am in Montreal. I just looked it up in case Al doesn't know. Oh my gosh. Anybody else still writing? Yes. Yes.

Are you still writing? No, I'm just finishing. Because I've got I feel like I've already got it. Are we are we on Zoom on delay? Yeah, yeah, yeah. She's like, hey, Matt, I forgot to start the recording before. And so I started it like around question three or something like that. So I apologize for that.

That's bad, right? I'm really sorry. But you're recording, right? I heard it go recording in progress at the beginning. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's recording, but I am also recording your input. But for half a second, I'm like, oh, fuck. But I do remember us talking about how you're about to press record.

I know. And I was about to press record. And then for some reason, I got distracted by our conversation. And I didn't. So I'm very sorry. And I know this is not the first time I've done this. Well, I mean, it's it's mainly Connor's issue. So if you want to apologize to him, I think that would be fair enough. Connor, I would like to give you the most sincerest apology that I possibly can. Okay.

And for the listeners, they'll be like, oh, Al sounds a bit off early, but then he come really good. That's way better than the opposite. Yeah. Yeah. He came good. I also think it's like a redemption story. You sound pretty good coming through as it is.

By the way, I didn't, I didn't manage to get out my very sincere apology to Connor. Can I say it now? Yeah, please get it out. Connor. Jesus Christ. I am sorry. I think that was pretty good. Yeah, I think that was actually I reckon I almost believed it.

Will Connor though, I guess we'll find out. Is Connor sort of a sensitive guy. Uh, yeah. Is he empathetic? He's an empath. Yeah, big time. I put the pathetic and empathetic. You sure do.

Claire, do you do any sport? Hello, no. No. Why do you have you? Do you run or something? When you asked that, did you have a suspicion that I did or didn't? I assume that you did do something for physical activity. I guess everyone does. Actually, not everyone does.

What do you do? I do run. Did you run? Bouldering? I don't do bouldering. I didn't think you do bouldering. I didn't think you did bouldering. I've considered it, but it's not really.

Do you know, there are some things that require you to go to a place and mix with a certain group of people. And I'm always reluctant. You know, it's like I might like bouldering, but do I want to be around bouldering people? Yeah. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with them. I just don't want to become them and then be one. I mean, just by virtue of being there and bouldering. What do you do? Sometimes run. That's mostly it. Yeah. You know, occasionally try, try to do weights, but I've never managed to do it consistently. I do the first time and I go, God, it feels good to like have hurting arms, you know,

knowing that I'm growing muscle and then I can never get back to it. Yeah, I don't love it. I know because I know how much I know how crucial it is to get the placement of like your scabs and the, you know, like everything has to be sitting in the right place for the for the weights to do more good than bad. Otherwise you're like, oh, why do I have a headache for three days? It's because you were doing like, you're like, you know, you're doing some work, but you are positioning you, you know, you weren't like pulling your core in right.

So, yeah, I know that I should do more. Well, I know weight activities are really good, but I don't. Well, I do. But thank you so much. I did an out of university. Ah, thank you so much. I did Anatomy at University. Ah, I was gonna ask that. Yeah, were you? Yeah, that was gonna be my next question. Did you do Anatomy at University?

Wow, I wish I'd let you ask that because I would have been like, what? Yeah, oh my God. I was just trembling, Virgil. It would have seemed as incredible as sort of Batman predicting disco. Yeah, wouldn't it? I guess it's only polite for me to ask, Alastair. Did you study anatomy at university?

It's only polite. I studied engineering, sort of the anatomy of technology. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Specializing in like, retirement home heating and cooling, right? Get out.

Yeah. Wow. Which is, you know. HVAC, I know all about HVAC. I did the logistics awards at the Grand Hyatt. I used to sell air conditioning. That was my last real job. I sometimes get hot and have to use

air conditioners. Same. I cannot believe this. What are the odds? Check this out guys. Okay. Stupid and so good that is that is that that's the classic a TV bit so stupid so funny Normally, it's smarter than that as well, but Stupid or is the only word you say in an Australian accent Also, I like Gal McGregor here. He says, Gal, Gal and everybody know it. If you're hearing me in an Australian accent, then you know I'm I'm being a bit of a joker. Yeah, you're being ridgy didge. Well, I'm fair. No, what was that bit?

Oh, I'm fairly dinkum. But I am fairly dinkum. Take a bit. Classic Elsa. Anyway, the answer in for the final question. What is the word that usually goes in front of dinkum? Fair dinkum. And he's changed to fairly dinkum. Well, fairly dinkum. That's pretty funny.

OK. Changes the meaning entirely. Well, not entirely dinkum. I imagine it translates to the French speaking Canadian audiences. Entirely. Well, not entirely, dinkum. It's a good bit. I imagine it translates to the French speaking Canadian audiences. Oh, absolutely. They love a French, fair dinkum bit. Dinkum?

How would you say that? No word-based jokes translate at all. That's what I've discovered. Wow. Vibe-based ones. I get it. It's the old concepts and yeah. Who is the villain introduced in episode 29 of the 1960s TV version of Batman? Sorry, that can't be number four. Surely we're at five.

Did I say question four? That's question five. Did I say five? We're going backwards. I thought I was in a vortex. Question two. We get up to five, then we go back to one. And then we come back and finish up to six.

We do these six questions. It just takes us twenty questions to get there. Oh my god. This is the Batman villain. I didn't pick my kids up from school.